Air fried sweet potato wedges?… Crispy and delicious with only one teaspoon of oil?… Yes please! I could eat these all day.

In this day and age the things you can do with so many amazing new kitchen appliances/gadgets are endless. I think we’ve gotten to the point that if some of these items were not in our kitchen I would be lost when it comes to quick and easy meal preps. So many quick, creative and healthy dishes come from using these tools that I can literally never run out of things to make with them. The possibilities are endless.

Here are my top 6 kitchen gadgets to own in 2017. Ranked in order. Hope you can get your hands on some of these and cook/blend/chop/spiralize/juice/air-fry your way to goodness!

I know what you’re thinking… Do I really need to buy another cookbook? Really, while there are hundreds of free recipes on so many amazing websites?

Well, let me tell you, these 6 cookbooks are worth the investment. The recipes contained within these beautiful pages are hard-found on the internet. And once you taste the dishes I guarantee you’ll what to go back for more and more…

Happy Friday everyone!! I don’t know about where you are but we’ve had some seriously confused weather here in Seattle lately. Pouring rain and 42 one day and super sunny and 68 the other. I’m so ready for spring!

More and more I feel like staying out during the beautiful days rather then spending a ton of time in the kitchen. When I get home I just don’t have the creative energy to come up with my own recipes for dinner, so those times call for some seriously good food blogs to take center stage.

Today I’m going to share with you the 6 most reached for healthy food blogs in my digital culinary library. I’ve cooked up many of their recipes for years now and at times I find myself on their pages just for inspiration and some eye candy. So, bookmark them on your smartphone or laptop because trust me with these guys you can never go wrong when you’re in the need for an amazing recipe. …

Sometimes when you look at a particular fruit you can just see it’s beautifying properties. Take an avocado for example. The earthy, rough subtle edges of the avocado’s skin that peels away revealing the creamy, buttery, smooth texture of its interior fruit.

Seriously, my mouth is already watering…

But, what you may not know though is how good avocados actually are for you. So, let me share with you some things I’ve learned along the way to my avocado obsession. If you’ve been following the blog, by now you know how I truly feel about the incredible, edible avocado. …

Watcha got there? How’d you make that? Always one of the first great questions I get asked! Well, it’s a pretty simple, and always tasty, combo: leafy greens + fruit + water … and maybe some fancy additions if I’m in the mood. It may seem like a crazy breakfast fad, but honestly once you try a green smoothie, you’ll more likely to become insanely addicted! Trust me, there is nothing better than sipping handfulls of fresh, leafy greens in a delightful fruit fusion fashion. Right?

There are a lot of complicated and fancy green smoothie recipes out there, but I’m here to show you how to blend up a really simple and tasty green smoothie for breakfast every morning in about 1 minute flat. That’s way faster then toasting that bagel and making that cup of coffee you’re used to in the morning!

Not to mention, dark leafy greens are packed with disease fighting antioxidants, contain high-quality amino acids, important minerals, vitamins, and beneficial phytonutrients. They give you loads of energy, clean plant protein, and keep your skin clear and your system regular. They even help you lose bloating, and pounds!

Now, all you need is a great blender (it’s worth the investment!) and lets get to it, super fast! …

I’m really excited to share with you, The Perfect Food Cleanse. This cleanse consists of only foods straight from nature, in their most natural form, and which you can literally eat for the rest of your life because they contain every single nutrient (more about this later) you need to live your most vibrant life. And let me tell you, this is a much better alternate to the juice cleanse that has become popular as of late.

You’re about to find out how to cleanse the most simple and natural way. So, if you’re ready to jump into real and permanent weight loss, sustainable energy, clear glowing skin, and freedom from any weight loss fads… if you want a way of eating that will initially make you shed pounds fast, will keep you slim for your lifetime, and is so healthy you can really stick to eating this way for the long term, let’s get right to it!…

I know many of you have been asking me to do this post! It’s one of my favorite topics to cover and I know you have lots of questions about it. But before you make any assumptions, a word of caution, because I’m probably not going to say exactly what you might be expecting to hear, but let’s jump right to it!…

We’ve all heard of the new detox diet, the ultimate way to shed pounds quickly without compromising our health, avoiding unhealthy eating habits, and even dangerous, pills and diet drinks (like fen-phen, slim fast, low carb, high protein and the like), while at the same time obtaining squeaky clean insides, beautiful skin and a lean physique all by drinking 3 to 6 massive glasses for cold-pressed juices a day and nothing else.

Well, I know many of you have or want to try it, and why shouldn’t you? Juice cleanses promise fast results, shedding up to a pound a day. And do they work? Yes, you can most definitely lose up to 7 pounds in a week on the cleanse. I have done it, and almost everyone else who has will attest to it as well.

But, what if I told you that cold-pressed juicing might not be the best way to do a cleanse and reset the body…. Okay, yes, that’s is what I’m telling you. So, if your only goal is to lose weight, by all means go ahead, but for those of us who want to both lose weight and keep it off, eventually moving into healthier eating patterns, I’ll let you in on a little secret… there is a better way, a much better way to do it……

It’s about 9:30 in the morning… I just dropped the kids off at school and headed home thinking about the six things I need to accomplish between now and 3pm when it’s time for pick up. On my way I stopped to pick up a smoothie and salad from one of my absolute favorite spots. With everything that needed to be done today the last thing I had time for was to make myself a healthy breakfast or lunch…. and this, my friends, is how Evolution Fresh is changing the way we eat on the run.

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Hi Everyone and welcome to GalaLiving! I am Milen Gala. I live, love, work and play in Seattle, Washington with my husband and our 2 kids (ages 8 and 5). We initially created GalaLiving in 2012 to share vegetarian and vegan recipes with our friends and family. In the past couple of years GalaLiving has transformed from a simple little food blog to a much loved space where several thousand people make and share our recipes and health and wellness inspirations. At GalaLiving, we like to eat wholesome, energizing dishes and incorporate lifestyle habits that keep us glowing and make us feel like a million bucks. We hope you enjoy discovering and tasting new things along with us!